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Kruger Rest Camps
Stay inside Kruger National Park and choose a camp that suits your route, wildlife interests and travel style. From popular southern camps to quieter bases in northern Kruger, the right camp can completely change the rhythm of your trip.
Choose The Right Rest Camp
Start with your entrance gate, how far you want to drive and which part of Kruger you most want to explore.
Choose By Gate
Your entrance gate can make a big difference to which camp is practical for your first or last night.
Explore Kruger Gates →Choose By Distance
Kruger is much larger than many first-time visitors expect, so avoid building long transfers into every day.
Explore Getting Around →Choose By Region
Different parts of Kruger offer different landscapes, habitats and safari experiences.
Explore Kruger →Combine Camps
For longer stays, using two or three camps can help you experience more than one part of the park.
Browse Camps →Southern Rest Camps
Popular bases for travellers entering through Hazyview, Malelane and Komatipoort-side gates.
Skukuza
Kruger’s largest rest camp and a useful base for first-time visitors who want plenty of facilities and a wide choice of safari routes.
Best Gate: Paul Kruger →Lower Sabie
A popular southern camp known for its riverside setting and rewarding wildlife-viewing routes around water sources.
Explore Crocodile Bridge →Berg-en-Dal
A south-western camp surrounded by rocky, hilly scenery and conveniently positioned for Malelane Gate.
Explore Malelane Gate →Pretoriuskop
One of Kruger’s oldest rest camps, set in the south-west in a landscape with a distinctive character of its own.
Explore Numbi Gate →Crocodile Bridge
A smaller camp close to Kruger’s south-eastern entrance and useful for exploring wildlife-rich southern roads.
Explore Crocodile Bridge Gate →Central Rest Camps
Good choices for travellers who want to move beyond the southern park and explore Kruger’s central landscapes.
Satara
One of Kruger’s best-known central camps, surrounded by open grasslands and popular safari routes.
Explore Orpen Gate →Olifants
Known for its elevated position and wide views over the Olifants River, with a quieter central Kruger feel.
Explore Phalaborwa Gate →Letaba
A relaxed riverside base for exploring central and northern Kruger, especially appealing to visitors who enjoy river scenery.
Explore Phalaborwa Gate →Northern Rest Camps
Quieter bases for travellers who want to experience the less crowded northern and far-northern park.
Mopani
A quieter northern camp overlooking Pioneer Dam, well suited to travellers exploring less crowded sections of Kruger.
Explore Northern Kruger →Shingwedzi
A peaceful northern camp with large trees, riverine habitat and quieter surrounding roads.
Explore Kruger →Punda Maria
One of Kruger’s northernmost camps and a useful base for travellers exploring distinctive far-northern landscapes.
Explore Punda Maria Gate →Match Your Camp To Your Gate
A sensible first or last camp can reduce unnecessary driving and make the beginning and end of your Kruger stay much easier.
Skukuza & Pretoriuskop
If you’re entering from the Hazyview side, southern and south-western camps are useful starting points.
Explore Hazyview-Side Gates →Berg-en-Dal
Berg-en-Dal is particularly convenient for visitors entering through Malelane Gate.
Explore Malelane Gate →Crocodile Bridge & The South
Use Crocodile Bridge as a starting point for exploring the south-eastern side of Kruger.
Explore Crocodile Bridge Gate →Satara & Central Kruger
Orpen Gate works naturally with travellers whose plans centre around Satara and central Kruger.
Explore Orpen Gate →Letaba & Olifants
Phalaborwa Gate is useful when your itinerary focuses on the Letaba and Olifants regions.
Explore Phalaborwa Gate →Punda Maria
For far-northern Kruger, give yourself enough time and build your trip around realistic overnight stops.
Explore Punda Maria Gate →Planning Your Rest Camp Stay
Inside Kruger, distance works differently. Leave plenty of time for sightings, stops and slower driving.
Keep Distances Realistic
Don’t overload transfer days. A journey between camps often takes longer than the map suggests.
Explore Getting Around →Arrive With Time To Spare
If you’re moving between camps, allow enough time to reach your destination before closing times.
View Travel Essentials →Prepare For Your Stay
Think about clothing, safari essentials, chargers and what you’ll need between rest stops.
What To Pack →Build Days Around Your Camp
Use your overnight base as the centre of the day instead of spending all your time driving between distant regions.
Explore Safari & Wildlife →Handpicked Places To Stay
Looking beyond the main rest camps? WOK Curated Stays can help you explore handpicked accommodation that fits naturally into a Kruger, Greater Kruger or Lowveld itinerary.
Ask About Curated Stays →Build The Safari Around The Day
Explore handpicked safari and Kruger experiences designed to fit naturally around your accommodation, gate and wider trip.
Explore WOK Experiences →WOK Concierge
Tell us your dates, entrance gate, number of nights and the type of safari you want. WOK Concierge can help shape a personalised Kruger route around sensible camp combinations and driving distances.
Plan With WOK →Plan Your Trip
Bring rest camps, Kruger gates, driving, accommodation and experiences together into a route that works across Kruger, the Lowveld and Panorama Route.
Start Planning →Explore More Places To Stay
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Private Safari Lodges
Add a private reserve or safari lodge stay before or after your time inside Kruger.
Explore Safari Lodges →Stay Near A Gate
Useful for early entry days, late arrivals or combining park and town stays.
Explore Gate Stays →Stay By Town
Compare accommodation around Hazyview, Hoedspruit, Phalaborwa, Malelane and other gateway towns.
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